2007 Finalists Fail to Make NCAA Field
By MARK LONG – 1 hour ago
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — If Florida and Ohio State meet again this season, it will be in the NIT title game. The Gators and Buckeyes, finalists in last year’s national championship game, missed getting back into the NCAA tournament Sunday.
It marked the first time the two finalists from the previous year have not made the tournament since 1980 when Michigan State and Indiana State did not qualify. Magic Johnson led Michigan State to 75-64 victory over Larry Bird and Indiana State in the 1979 title game, then both stars turned pro.
“It shows you about how much things change,” Buckeyes coach Thad Matta said.
Two-time defending national champion Florida (21-11) lost eight of its final 11 games, including the last four, and was clearly out of the NCAA tournament picture before the brackets were announced.
The Gators had their streak of consecutive NCAA tournament berths snapped at nine, and became the first defending champ to miss the tournament since 1989 when Kansas was ineligible because of probation.
Ohio State (19-13) had a much better shot, having snapped a four-game losing streak with wins against Purdue and Michigan State to close out the regular season. But the Buckeyes lost their first game in the Big Ten tournament, falling 67-60 to the Spartans.
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Yeah, according to the Mayan calendar that wasn’t supposed to happen till 2012, right?
the london 7/7 exersizes were clearly the most powerful example since the excersize targeted the exact locations at the exact time of the blasts, covering the exact same scenario.incidentally, similar things happened surrounding the oklahoma city bombing. 1.) Although no ANFO truck bomb attacks have occurred on U.S. soil in more than two decades, just a few months before the OKC bombing, the federal government evidently felt a need for “investigative tools and computer data” on such attacks and actually test fired a few truck loads of ANFO to learn how the crime scene looks afterwards. 2.) According to the indictment against McVelgh and Nichols, the conspiracy to build, transport and function the Ryder Truck bomb of April 19, 1995 took more than a year to hatch. Much of this conspiracy took place in Arizona, according to the U.S. Attorney. As McVeigh and Nichols were allegedly conspiring to create such a bomb, the government now admits it was actually building, blowing up and photographing ANFO truck bombs, just one state over, in New Mexico, during this same period of time. The purpose of the activity was to insure a smooth Investigation of a crime that had not occurred in more than 23 years, but would amazingly happen within 12 months of the project’s inception. 3.) Of the handful of federal ATF agents who worked on Project Dipole Might, one just happened to be outside the Alfred P. Murrah building on the morning of April 19, 1995, and not only survived the lethal blast, but actually called in the bombing to his superiors, correctly identifying it as an ANFO Bomb. (Before you consider this particular coincidence, also explain why virtually no other OKC BATF employees were anywhere near their place of employment that morning, and in fact, none were killed or seriously injured in a terrorist bombing the government claims was directed towards them.permalinkparentwil2200 (2 children) [+]wil2200 3 points 1 month ago [-]”bizarre coincidence” - wow what a twist, I can’t wait to see how this gets played out…
and will completely dominate the sky.
I emailed this to my brother. He’ll try anything weird.
About Fucking Time.